ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the complex relations between the game of jurisdiction and the game of scale. First, jurisdiction is often confused with spatial scale; but there are numerous jurisdictions that are functionally rather than spatiotemporally differentiated. The chapter focuses on issues of spatial scale but could not exclude, as the analysis progressed, some mention of global capital flows and other movements that cannot be understood without taking temporality into account is one indication of the difficulties of attempting to discuss spatial scale apart from temporal scale. To illustrate the importance of qualitative analyses of spatial scales, and develop the point about the limits of the law-as-map metaphor, recent literature on the emergence of the modern notion of territory is particularly useful. The affective and aesthetic dimensions of different governance rationalities or projects are rarely considered in legal studies.
